One of the linked items below is a story about Microsoft settling up with EU<\/a> by Jeffrey Schwartz – a nice summary of the event. Here’s the full comment emailed him if you’re interested:<\/p>\n The browser wars have certainly been heating up again (Apple Safari, With Google in the browser game with Chrome, you have to think (and Between the US and the EU, governments have gotten much more\n
\nGoogle Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft IE, etc.). And with things
\nlike the different UI platforms in the mobile space and non-HTML RIAs
\nfrom Adobe and Microsoft, we’re set for a lot going on in the
\napplication development space over the coming years.<\/p>\n
\nhope) that they’re looking at the EU’s demands on Internet Explorer as
\nguidance for how to avoid sticky situations with Chrome and their
\nother efforts. Chrome is annoyingly up-front (which is good, in this
\ncontext) about asking you for browser and search engine defaults.<\/p>\n
\naggressive in the technology world (check out the rumblings in the
\nmainframe space<\/a>), and I suspect that “government meddling” will start
\nto come as a rude shock to the tech-heads out there who’re used to a
\nmore hands-off, “business-friendly” approach.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe Links<\/h2>\n
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HP "is expected to introduce an updated version of its Operations Orchestration software, which can now extend the product's automated provisioning and de-provisioning capabilities into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The software, sold as a license and deployed on customer premises, enables IT administrators to automate the process of provisioning virtual resources. HP executives say the added features will let companies using both internal and external clouds standardize on provisioning and de-provisioning workflows."<\/li>\n
659+ pages of good bed-time reading.<\/li>\n
"It's time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America. This year's city budget is an astonishing $6.6 billion — more than twice the budget for the entire state of Idaho — for roughly 800,000 residents. Yet despite that stratospheric amount, San Francisco can't point to progress on many of the social issues it spends liberally to tackle — and no one is made to answer when the city comes up short."<\/li>\n
James rounds-up some enterprise centric news and papers from Flash-land.<\/li>\n
You can't half-ass change that involves monthly bills for commodities: "It seems that PG&E’s smart grid rollout is woefully under-resourced at the back-end. What PG&E should have is a system where customers can see their electrical consumption in real-time (on their phone, on their computer, on their in-home display, etc.) but also, in the same way that credit card companies contact me if purchasing goes out of my normal pattern, PG&E should have a system in place to contact customers whose bills are going seriously out of kilter. Preferably a system which alerts people in realtime if they are consuming too much electricity when the price is high, through their in-home display, via sms,Twitter DM, whatever."<\/li>\n
Austin-based (?) BPM consulting outfit.<\/li>\n
Browser wars, part II. And Microsoft opening up docs and integrations with "our Windows, Windows Server, Office, Exchange, and SharePoint products."<\/li>\n
Someone hacked together some full-text feeds for some major news sources.<\/li>\n
Nice round-up of analyst predictions for 2010, including an excellent summary of us RedMonk's predictions, distilled down to a tight list.<\/li>\n
List of companies that commit to IBM with frequency, etc.<\/li>\n
A good, technical fill in for IBM. They should use Lombardi's assets – including a SaaS one – to speak to more fluid, rapidly changing, Agile business in their Smart Planet talk.<\/li>\n
These guys are doing gangbusters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n